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michelle hart Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Michelle Hart is an author. novel: we do what we do in the dark (5.3.22 via @riverheadbooks & @tinderpress) formerly: assistant books editor, @OprahDaily site: https://t.co/p72K9cwO0x

15 books
Book Cover for: The Nude, C. Michelle Lindley

The Nude

C. Michelle Lindley
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A little Cusk, a little Tartt—Lindley’s shrewd and sensual debut centers on an art historian traveling to a Greek island to acquire a recently discovered female sculpture and ends up embroiled in a complicated relationship with a translator and his artist wife.

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Book Cover for: Girl's Guide to Leaving, Laura Villareal

Girl's Guide to Leaving

Laura Villareal
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spent the day reading and savoring the poems in this gorgeous collection by @earthandstars; a book that blends aching personal history and cultural myths, Midwestern emo and southwestern landscapes

Paperback, 2022

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde

Eleutheria

Allegra Hyde
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@allegra_hyde adore your writing, really looking forward to reading your collection! i've recommended eleutheria to pretty much everyone, one of the best books i've read in a long time!

Paperback, 2022

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lush Lives, J. Vanessa Lyon

Lush Lives

J. Vanessa Lyon
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The second release from Roxane Gay’s publishing imprint, Lyon’s swoonworthy romance between a struggling artist who inherits her aunt’s Harlem brownstone and an auction house appraiser is also a sumptuous story about the complicated costs of ambition.

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Celebrants: A Read with Jenna Pick, Steven Rowley

The Celebrants: A Read with Jenna Pick

Steven Rowley
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Rowley’s novels deftly oscillate between tear-jerker and knee-slapper, books that brim with all of life’s big and small emotions, and his latest is no exception. It might just be his best yet.

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Book Cover for: My Government Means to Kill Me, Rasheed Newson

My Government Means to Kill Me

Rasheed Newson
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Presented as a sort of fictional memoir, studded with historical figures and footnotes, Newson’s debut is an audacious, vibrant Ragtime-esque ride through the sordid sanctuary of AIDS-era New York, a book about sex and activism and the power we have to liberate ourselves.

Paperback, 2023

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Lush Lives, J. Vanessa Lyon

Lush Lives

J. Vanessa Lyon
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…Lyon’s swoonworthy romance between a struggling artist who inherits her aunt’s Harlem brownstone and an auction house appraiser is also a sumptuous story about the complicated costs of ambition.

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery, Casey Parks

Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery

Casey Parks
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for @nytimesbooks (!), i had the honor/privilege of reviewing @caseyparks's largehearted memoir/mystery DIARY OF A MISFIT, a book that moved me to think about the many spirits that haunt/mollify queer lives https://t.co/mAKSLGFZGO

Paperback, 2023

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Brother & Sister Enter the Forest, Richard Mirabella

Brother & Sister Enter the Forest

Richard Mirabella
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Mirabella’s debut novel—about a pair of once-close siblings and how the bruises of their youth swell into adulthood—is both bracing and a balm, his softly disarming sentences like cotton puffs that absorb the pain of deep cuts.

Hardcover, 2023

$27.00Member price:$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: When Watched: Stories, Leopoldine Core

When Watched: Stories

Leopoldine Core
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very excited to talk w/ @t_mcallister and co about one of my favorite leopoldine core stories, and also about The Process (both in the writing sense and in the unfortunate 76ers sense) https://t.co/73YYSO2r70

Paperback, 2016

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book